Honorable Mention / 2017 / Portraiture / Culture

Kathputli Colony

Kathputli is a colony on the outskirts of New Delhi, inhabited by street artists from
Rajasthan.
Photos of this series mainly portray the people, those who in a few months will be driven
from their poor homes to make way for a huge hypermarket.

Marco was born in Rome in 1967 and has been photographing since the age of 12 when he received his first camera. Since then, he never stopped looking at the world from behind the camera’s lens.
He has an engineering degree and is a manager. Photography is not his profession but his passion. He lives in Rome. Marco has attended courses and seminars held by leading Italian and international photographers.
He cares about social and cultural issues; he has photographed peoples and stories aat every latitude, at all temperatures and in all environmental conditions.